Police have just been round ... →[More:]

... not, not for Hell Neighbour this time.

They were trying to trace family/partner of my biker neighbour, Jamie. He's been in an accident, and I have a horrible, sinking feeling that he's been killed. I asked them outright several times if he was dead, and they said they could not give me any information, except to say that it was "extremely serious" and they had to speak to his family first.

Jamie went off to Cornwall last night on his Harley, for a few days camping. The accident happened in the West Country.

He and his girlfriend split up after 20 years about 18 months ago, but neither could afford to buy the other out, so he was living there alone mostly, with Kate coming back from time to time. I didn't have her mobile number, but I gave the police her email address and told them the name of her employers (a London council), so they can trace her through them.

If he had been seriously hurt, I think they would have said "well, he's very poorly" or something like that. I am fearing the worst here.